Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics, or another quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience
- 2 years of experience in financial planning and analysis, consulting, or a related function, or an advanced degree.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience with building financial reporting, produce analysis, implementing scalable monitoring, and implementing reporting solutions.
- Experience building financial models to evaluate business scenarios, investment decisions, and long-term strategic planning.
- Experience with SQL, and additional data analysis tools like Python or R for automation and business intelligence.
- Experience developing strategies in fast-paced environments.
- Ability to work with data to produce analysis, influencing decision making with numerical analysis, and generating insights.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present financial insights to both technical and senior executive audiences.
About The Job
Financial Analysts ensure that Google makes sound financial decisions. As a Financial Analyst, your work, whether it’s modeling business scenarios or tracking performance metrics, is used by our leaders to make strategic company decisions. While working on multiple projects at a time, you are focused on the details while finding creative ways to solve big picture challenges.
The name Google came from “googol,” a mathematical term for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros. And nobody at Google loves big numbers like the Finance team when providing in depth analysis on all manner of strategic decisions across Google products. From developing forward-thinking analysis to generating management reports to scaling our automated financial processes, the Finance organization is an important partner and advisor to the business.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $87,000-$128,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google .
Responsibilities
- Provide financial decision support, forecasting, and reporting for Engineering/Product teams in Core Product Areas.
- Analyze data to drive investment prioritization, resource optimization, and efficiency improvements.
- Develop an analytics and data management framework to guide investment and operational expenditure decisions within Engineering and Product.
- Collaborate with Accounting, Internal Audit, Treasury, and Financial Operations to ensure compliance and alignment with broader financial objectives.
- Partner with Engineering and Product teams to analyze the financial viability of long-term plans, investment strategies, and new product launches.
Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .